Today was quite relaxing in the morning and tiring in the afternoon. I jumped out of bed at 530 in the morning to do something I enjoy tremendously - fishing. I went to lower pierce and after less than half an hour, my 4 weight rod broke at the ferrule. I do not know why it broke but it just cracked. In desperation, I whipped out my mobile phone and rang mum and asked her to bring my 6weight fly set for me to use.

When mum arrived, she handed me the rod and asked what happened, so i explained that i was just casting and suddenly heard a loud crack and upon inspection of my rod, it had cracked. She seems to still be upset. Maybe it is because it was the first fly rod I ever got and she bought it.

At about 8am, a storm began to brew and as it approached, Desmond and i packed our rods faster than ever before because we did not want to get struck by lightning and become Lightning Rods (a series of rods made by Berkley, a rod brand). We began to walk briskly towards the nearby bus stop at the main road and we ran the last 30 meters or so because it had begun to drizzle and it was getting heavier by the second. We stood under the shelter and watched the sky unleash its fury and it was raining cats and dogs. Lightning flashed all around us and it was comforting to know that I was not at the water's edge fishing away and risking getting struck by lightning.

Desmond and I took a bus down to Macritchie reservoir to catch lampans. Before we went to the cove to fish for the lampans. We berleyed and the lampans appeared but they refused to eat our bread flies. We eventually moved around the corner to cast at the gigantic shoal of lampans. There were so many of them, I found it difficult to see the bottom of the reservoir. I berleyed out 2 pieces of bread and cast out my fly and was rewarded by a hearty take, followed by a lost fish because I failed to set the hook properly. 2 presentations later, I was rewarded with a take, and a fish neatly hooked in the front of its mouth. I then threw out more bread and Desmond was rewarded with a hookup! we finally had a double hookup! Sheer bliss! we compared the sizes of our fish and Desmond's fish was much bigger than mine and I had the honour of releasing his fish for him. I think his fish was about 12 inches or larger. It was about the size of my largest ever lampan. Perhaps it was the same fish.

Desmond was also unlucky enough to lose his bread fly to a stupid turtle who ate it up. As a result, I gave Desmond one of my bread flies.

Essentially, that was my morning which i spent fishing. I spent my afternoon studying because exams are this week. I will sleep now becuse I have church tomorrow and I have to get up early. Most importantly, I am sleepy.

Good Night.
Yours,
An Ren